136 The Irish Naturalist. [May, 



Turbellaria, the list of which I fully expect to increase 

 very considerably, ProsthecercBus vittatus, Mont., Oligocladus 

 sanguinolentus, lyang, and, Stylochoplana maculata, Quatref , are 

 worthy of mention. Finally the occurrence of a species of 

 Polygordius has, I believe, not before been signalised from the 

 coast of Ireland. 



PROGKBDINGS OF IRISH SOCIETIES. 



RoYAi, Zooi^oGiCAi, Society. 



Recent donations include a Badger from the Karl of Granard, a pair of 

 Peacocks from A. Bell, Esq., a Macaw from V. W. Brown, Esq., and a 

 pair of Herons from E. Blake Knox, Esq. Two St. Kilda lambs, a hybrid 

 calf, and a pigmy calf, have been born in the Gardens. 



8,070 persons visited the Gardens during March. 



Dubinin Microscopicai, Ci^ub. 



Ma-RCH 19th.— The Club met at Mr. W. N. Ai,i,En'S. 



Mr. Moored exhibited Nutria aurantmm, Kick. At a previous meeting 

 Mr. Moore had exhibited a pseudo-bulb of an unnamed species oi Anguloa 

 from South America, which was infested with a fungus. The fungus 

 was the species now exhibited. It is remarkable that several distinct 

 species of Nedria have been found growing on Orchids in the houses at 

 Glasnevin. The species in question is uncommon. It had previously 

 been recorded as growing on the Ivaburnum and Aspen Poplar in 

 Thuringia, and on the Ash tree in Belgium. 



Mr. G. PiM showed the secidiospores of Puccinia Lapsance^ Schultze, 

 sent by Mr. Burbidge, from the Trinity College Gardens. The fungus 

 produces crimson spots on the leaves on which nestle the clusters of 

 pale yellow peridia, forming a very pretty low-power object. 



Mr. McArdIvE exhibited fertile specimens of Cephalozia Ttirneri, Hook., 

 which were sent to him by Mr. M. B. Slater, F.i^.S., of Malton, York- 

 shire. They were collected in Maine Co., California, in May, 1894, by 

 Professor Marshall A. Howe, of the University at Berkely. 



In Ireland it is one of the rarest liverworts ; it was first found by Miss 

 Hutchins near Bantry, Co. Cork, who sent it to Sir William Hooker, 

 and he named it to perpetuate the memory of his friend Dawson Turner ; 

 an excellent description and figure of the plant is given in his 

 grand work on the " British Hepaticse." From the date 181 1, } when it 

 was collected by Miss Hutchins, we have no record that it was found 

 again until 1873, when it was collected in small quantity at Cromaglown, 



